Bachelor of Music
The four-year Bachelor of Music degree allows students to become broadly educated musicians, learning a range of skills in various music and arts-related contexts and professions. This degree facilitates creative interdisciplinary links within music disciplines as well as with other subject areas throughout the University, enabling you to develop as a musician through the acquisition of an integrated body of knowledge, skills and ways of thinking.
Students choose from the following:
- Contemporary Music Practice
- Creative Music
- Digital Music and Media
- Improvised Music
- Musicology (major)
Core Requirements
To qualify for the award of the Bachelor of Music, a candidate must complete 192 credit points as specified in the Pathway Tables for a program or a major.
Music Minors
A minor requires the completion of 36 credit points as set out in the Learning and Teaching policy according to one of the following patterns of 6 credit point units:
(a) 2x1000-level units, 2x2000-level units, and 2x3000-level units; or
(b) 2x1000-level units, 3x2000-level units and 1x3000-level unit.
Units of study contributing towards one minor may not contribute toward any other major completed except where otherwise approved by the faculty.
Creative Music Minor
|
Level |
Credit points |
Required Units of Study |
|---|---|---|
|
1000 |
12 |
CMPN1331 Concepts of Music Through Composition 1 CMPN1332 Concepts of Music Through Composition 2 |
|
2000 |
12 |
MUSC2614 Composition Workshop CMPN2510 Scoring & Arranging for the Screen or CMPN2320 Music Notation & Publishing |
|
3000 |
12 |
12cp in 3000 level Composition Electives |
Digital Music and Media Minor
|
Level |
Credit points |
Required Units of Study |
|---|---|---|
|
1000 |
12 |
CMPN1220 Foundations of Digital Music CMPN1631 Electroacoustic Music or CMPN1632 Computer Music Fundamentals |
|
2000 |
12 |
MUSC2653 Introduction to Digital Music Techniques or CMPN2007 Sound Recording Advanced CMPN2633 Computer Music Advanced |
|
3000 |
12 |
12 cps from the following units: CMPN3635 Writing Music for the Moving Image; MUSC3603 Advanced Digital Music Techniques; CMPN3634 Interactive Media and Sound Installations |
Ethnomusicology Minor
|
Level |
Credit points |
Required Units of Study |
|---|---|---|
|
1000 |
12 |
MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today; Plus 6 credit points from the following units: MUED1007 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Music, MUED1004 Non-Western Music, MUSC1300 Popular Music Ensemble |
|
2000 |
12 |
12 credit points from the following units: MUSC2672 Australian Popular Music, MUSC2637 Aboriginal Creativity, MUSC2666 A Global Sound: African American Music, PERF2604 Chinese Music Ensemble 1, PERF2605 Chinese Music Ensemble 2 |
|
3000 |
12 |
12 credit points from the following units: MCGY3602 Understanding East Asian Music, PERF3606 Chinese Music Ensemble 3 or PERF3607 Chinese Music Ensemble 4, MUSC3610 Musical Traditions and Globalisation MUSC3640 Rhythms and Sounds of Latin America, MCGY3631 African American Music Inquiry MUSC3601 Contemporary Music Making, MUSC3629 Music in Everyday Life, MCGY5601 Music Through Ethnography, JAZZ3301 Rhythm Awareness/Analysis, MUSC3699 Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing |
Indigenous Music Minor
|
Level |
Credit points |
Required Units of Study |
|---|---|---|
|
1000 |
12 |
MCGY1031 Musical Worlds of Today MUED1007 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Music MUED1010 Key Issues In Music Education |
|
2000 |
12 |
MUSC2672 Australian Popular Music MUSC2637 Aboriginal Creativity |
|
3000 |
12 |
MUSC3610 Musical Traditions and Globalisation; plus one of the following units: KOCR3602 Race, Racism and Indigenous Australia, KOCR3607 Re-awakening Australian Languages, KOCR3605 Writing Country: Indigenous Ecopoetics |
Performance and Ensembles Minor
|
Level |
Credit points |
Required Units of Study |
|---|---|---|
|
1000 |
12 |
12cp of 1000 level performance or ensembles units |
|
2000 |
12 |
6cp of 2000 level performance or ensembles units MCGY2601 Perception of Music Performance |
|
3000 |
12 |
12cp of 3000 level performance or ensembles units |
Performance Science Minor
|
Level |
Credit points |
Required Units of Study |
|---|---|---|
|
1000 |
12 |
MUED1009 Psychology of Learning and Instruction MUED1008 Fundamentals of Teaching MUSC1604 Music, Health and Well-Being |
|
2000 |
12 |
MUSC2645 Psychology of Music MCGY2601 Perception of Music Performance |
|
3000 |
12 |
MCGY5603 Music as Social Science 6cp of 3000 level Performance or Ensembles units of study |